· Private foundation
Howard & Robin Reisman Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $335k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $175,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER | $160,000 |
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $30,000 |
| CONCORD ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| NEWTON WELLESLY HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL | $6,050 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| SPAULDING REHABILITATION HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| CLEAN WATER FUND | $1,500 |
| DOVER LAND CONSERVATION TRUST | $500 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM | $280 |
| BARNSTABLE LAND TRUST | $250 |
| BROWN RISD HILLEL FOUNDATION | $200 |
| MEDFIELD ANIMAL SHELTER | $150 |
| TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS | $140 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $300k · revenue +61%
- PSPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +49%
- CACONCORD ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- KOKEREN OR INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +78%
- SISOLSTICE INITIATIVEone grant, 2022 · $3k
- EWENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUPone grant, 2023 · $250 · revenue +20%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Education and Research
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations and the most unlike its peers is Weston Historical Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
- Who funds KEREN OR INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOVER LAND CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds Weston Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds BROWN HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BARNSTABLE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOVER POLICE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LAND'S SAKE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDFIELD ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds DOVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Howard & Robin Reisman Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Barnstable Land Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
- Native Plant Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Land's Sake Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Boston Book Festival Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.